For the last 2,000 years, Christians have been taught to believe that Apostle Paul condemned homosexuality. But a new discovery documents that he deliberately acknowledged that it does not prevent anyone from entering heaven. This discovery by internationally acclaimed cryptographer Michael Wood removes the final barrier to full societal acceptance of gays and lesbians.

“Michael Wood’s discovery is remarkable because it solves a colossal paradox regarding Paul’s Greek that has baffled scholars for 2,000 years,” says Dr. William Berg, former professor of Greek and Roman Classics at Stanford University, UCLA, and other academic institutions.

Paul’s only unequivocal reference to homosexuality is found within Romans 1:18-3:20, a Biblical passage that has mystified scholars for two millennia. “The interpretation of Romans 1:18-3:20 has been notoriously difficult for almost every commentator,” Richard Longenecker, a distinguished New Testament scholar, writes in his book ‘Studies in Paul.’ “Earlier interpreters such as Origen, Jerome, Augustine, and Erasmus wrestled with this issue and it continues to plague commentators today.”’

The passage is riddled with paradoxes. It says that “only the doers of the law will be vindicated by God,” and “by the works of the law no one will be vindicated.” The passage also mysteriously separates idolatrous, homosexual, orgy fests from transgressions worthy of spiritual death. “In finding the definitive solution to Paul’s legal paradox, I inadvertently discovered why he separated the idolatrous, same-sex orgies from the things he considered worthy of spiritual death,” said Wood.

Dr. Berg has spent many months examining the linguistic and historical basis of what he describes as Wood’s “remarkable” discovery. “Michael Wood reveals to the public a well-kept secret, namely that the apostle Paul, like the rest of his contemporaries, divided the commands of the Jewish law into two groups demarcated by Leviticus 19:18—‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the commandments based on loving your neighbor were ‘Justices of the Torah.’ Those not based on Leviticus 19:18 were ‘Jobs of the Torah.’” Dr. Berg explained.

Wood’s solution is definitive, elegant, and verifiable. Romans 2:13-26 teaches: Only the doers of the ‘Justices of the Torah’ will be vindicated before God. Romans 3:20 says, “By the ‘Jobs of the Torah’ no one will be vindicated.” Not only is there no contradiction, but the two teachings have always been simple restatements of each other; the “Great Paradox” is no paradox at all!

This legal solution fully explains Paul’s treatment of homosexuality. Paul’s passage excludes idolatrous, homosexual, orgy fests from things which he considered worthy of spiritual death, things such as “bad-mouthing others,” “deceiving,” and “inflicting pain.” Those engaged in idolatrous, homosexual orgies weren’t violating the Justices (they weren’t violating the precept, “Love your neighbor as yourself”). Therefore, Paul was obliged to separate this from his list of things which did violate the Justices.

The finding is significant because it documents that Paul purposefully separated the same-sex acts; it was a conscious, deliberate decision consistent with the rest of the passage. In fact, it was demanded by the rest of the passage. The resolution of the paradox empirically proves that Paul’s view on homosexuality was very different from what Christians had thought for 2,000 years.

Although Romans 1 contains the only unequivocal reference to homosexuality, anti-homosexual statements have been introduced into other passages in newer versions of the English Bible. As for these modern changes to the Biblical text: “Michael Wood has gone the extra mile in being faithful to Paul’s Greek,” said Dr. Berg. “He shows, time and again, that the words traditionally mistranslated as ‘homosexual,’ ‘effeminate,’ ‘impure,’ and so forth, are really targeting selfish, unloving, unjust activity and have nothing to do with sexual orientation. He shows that once again Paul was condemning those who violate the Justices of the Torah, and nothing more.”

Full details of Michael Wood’s definitive solution to the 2,000-year-old paradox and the implications for full acceptance of gays and lesbians are discussed in his new book, ‘Paul on Homosexuality.’

Food For Thought To ALL Christians Who Preach Hell & Damnation For Gays & Anti Gays

I have read the bible… from cover to cover more than once…. How about this one… Old testament says not to eat the meat of cloven hoofed animals it is an “abomination” Nor to eat meat after the 3rd day… was also an abomination… and one would surely perish… Yet today we eat pork, lamb & deer… and meat as much as a year old…and we do not perish… At the time that order was given there was NO refrigeration… trichinosis and food poisoning was a serious threat to the tiny growing population… God’s first order was to go forth & multiply… (both to Adam “Fill the earth” and to Noah he added “replenish the earth”) Humanity was in danger of extinction… So we invented refrigerators and the art of cooking & it’s now ok to eat the meat of a cloven hoofed animal & meat can keep in a freezer well over a year. . So Now my question is… back to “Go forth & multiply” … old testament also says not to spill your seed on the ground (masterbation) or to lie with same sex… man shall not lie with man as with a woman nor woman with woman… it is an abomination… there’s that word again… abomination….Masteration & Homosexuality are not conducive to the command “Go forth and multiply and fill the earth” However… Today… don’t you think the earth is full enough now??? So Don’t you think that rule no longer holds up either? My favorite line is… “Who do you think your God will Judge… you for hating or gays for loving…??” Just a thought…. And Christians say God doesn’t change…. All things change, therefore The Creator must also…
God Created Adam & Eve… so… who did their children marry?
According to the bible humanity started out through incest… then later declares incest an abomination… Wouldn’t THAT be God changing his mind? Otherwise he would have made more than just Adam & Eve to populate a planet to begin with…

This is all assuming you believe the bible to be the complete and only word of God… unaltered by the Nicene Council excluding all other texts from that time such as the Dead Sea Scrolls or older texts such as the History of Sumerian Texts… which is eerily similar to the Genesis Story… only written eons before…

Robert

Just a question out of curiosity to the author of this book. Did you factor in that Romans 1:19-2:1 were not included in Marcion’s version of Romans? Couldn’t it have been an interpolation by a later author? Just some food for thought.

Joe Melendez

This is very interesting… I have heard from many about the comments Keli mentioned about the abominations and it makes sense. Those laws were created to protect the people as well as rule over them. Im Gay and a practicing Catholic. Im with my partner of 15 years and we adopted two boys. We go to church almost every Sunday, I sing in the Choir. We are very involved in our Church despite all the negative press we hear about the “Catholic Church” as a whole. Our priests and for the most part most of our fellow parishoners treat us no differently then any other family. We are loved and respected all the same. My church of St.. Joe’s in North Plainfield… My church is unique and because of its uniqueness, I choose not to put them in the same category as those bigotted RC Churches u here about. Perhaps more are out there like mine. Its sad that my faith had to be compromised because my so-called-church growing up and what we hear and see on TV ruined it for a spell… I’ve tried other Christian religions and other then Orthodox Christianity, I felt Alien to those religions. I’m now fully convinced, I will die a Catholic.

My boys are growing up with religions values, diversity and love in our home. Prejudice people can pick apart LGBT people and our family as much as they want, but they will never know how wonderful many Gay people are because they “choose” not to give us a chance. The focus on the sex part and not the humanity. My being Gay is not a lifestyle… I choose to have a committed relationship and a family, thats a lifestyle. I choose to be involved in music and singing, thats a lifestyle. I choose to live in New Jersey, thats a “real” Lifestyle LOL… It would have been an abomination to be someone I wasn’t. I could have chosen to live a lie with a woman. So what people are telling me, it would have been okay to lie?? I thought Lying was a Sin as well..

Thank you to everyone who comments in a positive light of the LGBT community. The world is slowly evolving.

Love and Peace!

Joey

Lary

Why is it that the scholars who have devoted their lives to solving these problems can’t understand these things, but the Homosexuals can?

You mention that one will perish if they eat meat older than three days then point out meat is eaten as long as one year later today and people survive. Of course they survive the meat is refrigerated you goof ball. They didn’t hae refrigerators in those days and meat DID GO BAD.

I almost never leave a response, but i did some searching and wound up here Discovery:
Apostle Paul accepted #Christian #homosexuals #paulonhomosexuality | PR NewsChannel.
And I do have a couple of questions for you if it’s allright. Is it only me or does it look as if like some of the comments come across as if they are written by brain dead folks? 😛 And, if you are writing on additional sites, I’d like to keep up
with anything fresh you have to post. Would you list of every one of all your community pages like your Facebook page, twitter feed, or linkedin profile?

james

What a coincidence! Right at the historical moment when western decadence (see Nietzsche) has raised the issue as a voting issue! And so soon after ‘certain bible scholars’ have “discovered” that all the really very equally popular gnostic gospels were quashed by evil misogynist bishops! Can’t anyone grasp that ‘scholars’ are being disingenuous in order to push a social agenda? Are there really two different Greek words for ‘law’ that would separate out two kinds of law? And where is it that Paul says that idolatrous orgies DO NOT disqualify one salvation? The press releases are sensational, convoluted, and trite. And gee, maybe Mr. Woods is himself an advocate of the things he claimed Paul has rubber-stamped? This whole project reminds me of something W.C. Fields said when he was asked, on his deathbed, why he was now at this late date reading a bible: “Looking for loopholes, madam. Looking for loopholes.”
The whole social-psychological question of what happens to a culture when milleniae worth of taboos are forsaken is conveniently avoided. And oh yes,….next year what I have written here will be illegal to write or say. That is how decadence works.

Alexander

I have studied the Holy Bible for many years and Michael wood is an ungodly man and lies to all of you. Paul says that he does not approve of homosexuality. Paul agrees with everything God says.

Leviticus 18:22: “‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11: “Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people-none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.”

1 Timothy 1:8-10

Jude 7

The Truth about homosexuality in God’s view is that he dislikes you practicing it, but he loves you and has given you time on earth to change. But he warns you that if you do not change you can’t inherit the kingdom of God. To have temptations or desires for homosexuality does not make you a sinner but to practice them separates you from God. Been Gay or Lesbian is a choice, some are more tempted than others but you have a choice. I have seen a Gay men choose by his own will and told me he still has desires for gay men but chooses to be married to a woman and 3 wonderful kids he has.

Mr.Pink

You can embrace religion and jesus and still be gay. You deserve to be happy!! You deserve to fall in love!!

Freedfromevil

The personal agenda is known as searing one’s conscience with a hot iron.

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